Resource expander key

• US 20060291936A1
• Filed: 10/24/2005
• Published: 12/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Suni Vili Perez
• Original Assignee: Suni Vili Perez
• Inventors: Perez, Suni Vili
• Application Number:
  US11/262,165
• Publication Number:
  US 20060291936A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 400/472
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0202 Constructional details or processes of manufacture of the input device

Abstract

Typists press single keys separately to get single pieces of text. For example, the “a” key produces “a” text. Machine stenotypes press more than one key together to get single pieces of text. For example, the “g” produced In stenotype by pressing down the “t”, “k”, “p” and “w” keys all at the same time. Suni'"'"'s new RESOURCE EXPANDER KEY will enable each finger of the human hand, which can now produce 4 characters on a conventional type-writer keyboard (EXAMPLE: left pinkie: “1, q, a z”) to now produce 9 times that number! It does this within a space similar to that of the conventional typewriter keyboard through the use of silver or spot keys, which can be hit with a center key, but which unlike most keys today take up little room, because they are never meant to be hit alone.

Claims

1. ) a new, original type of key, which through surrounding silver or spot keys (keys which are too small to ever be pressed alone) can produce more than a single result (piece of text, etc) depending on which silver or spot keys the center key is hit with.

2. ) Any keyboard, of whatever configuration, which contains keys like those described in claim 1.